Distract me, please
April 20, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Mommy Extras
I used to read voraciously. Now, I can barely get through a chapter before I fall into the deepest sleep for about three hours when I am awoken by little cries or screams, or by my husband shaking me awake and saying “the baby needs you.”
Still, I can’t spend all of my time in my own head. I need a break from myself. Here are my top five books for encouraging the need for escapism in the new mother’s bedstand reading.
5. Told as diary entries, a la Briget Jones, the daily grind of Alison Pearson’s fund-manager mother in London’s City …read more
